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...Harvard. Though the committee has not yet issued its report, it has apparently looked with favor on a plan to grace the College with two new officers: a Chaplain, to mingle with men in their ordinary lives and be available to those who need religious guidance, and a Preacher, to run Memorial Church and teach a General Education course on religion. There are serious objections to this whole plan...
...problem of the University Preacher is more subtle. It is perfectly true that religion at Harvard is at present studied almost entirely from the non-religious point of view. The anthropological, the psychological, and the philosophical points of view are all represented, but not the specifically religious. It is arguable, therefore, that the absence of a course taught from this point of view is a flaw in the curriculum, and that there should be such a course at Harvard...
...Preacher would be running Memorial Church and hence would have to be ordained minister. And an ordained minister is almost by definition an ardent advocate of his own religion, or even his own particular sect. He is sort of vested interest. The very title "Preacher" seems to indicate that he would come before his students, not as a scholar communicating his knowledge of religious experience, but as a representative of a particular religion, at least slightly interested in persuading them to embrace his faith. To the extent that he was a missionary for his faith, the Preacher would be compromising...
Under consideration at present is a University preacher who would run Memorial Church and teach G.E. courses in religion and a University chaplain who would advise students on their problems, replacing some of the Hygiene Department's work in this field...
...Green Pastures (by Marc Connelly; suggested by Roark Bradford's Ol' Man Adam an' His Chillun; produced by the Wigreen Company in association with Harry Fromkes) still has an appeal after 21 years. Once again a set of Bible stories, as they appear to a Negro preacher conducting a Southern Sunday-school class, is made living and bright on the stage. The Green Pastures has a storybook simplicity, a picture-book vividness. It has the folk imagination's ability to recreate in its own image, to animate with its own sufferings, to interpret with...